Integrated Energy-Controlling in Industrial Value Chains

摘要

The energy-efficient production of goods can only be seen as a unique selling proposition if reliable values for the energy consumption, caused by production and transportation, can be determined. Furthermore, the customer must be able to compare these values for different products. Using a consistent and standardized methodology for calculating these values along the value chain, this comparability can be achieved. By providing this information, potentially required by the end user or by law, the pervasiveness of this methodology could be achieved, while the comparably more energy efficiently produced goods could become simultaneously more attractive for the (end) user. Consequently, an incentive system would emerge that motivates the companies to improve their energy efficiency throughout the complete value chain. The following paper presents the aforementioned methodology along with a unified scheme for allocating the energy consumption from the production to the products.